!Live Poets in our window!
Medicina Para Pesadillas is keeping the very special Mission tradition of poets reading on the street alive and well with this monthly reading series. Come hang and enjoy poets reading their work to Calle Veinte Cuatro. This month our chingonx features are Flavia Elisa Mora, Isabelle Khoo-Miller, and Rafael Luna.
Flavia Elisa Mora is a queer, Mexican-migrant, interdisciplinary artist and activist, raised in San Francisco, CA, occupied Ramaytush Ohlone land, in a neighborhood known as La Mission. Flavia’s practice focuses on muralism and Flor y Canto poetry. Her work centers storytelling traditions as a homage to her ancestral Caxcan practices rooted in the Chichimeca lands of Aguascalientes and South of zacatecas, Mexico. Flavia’s creative process explores migration, rematriation, queerness and gender expansiveness. She was recently published in Despues del Aguacero, a poetry anthology by Pochino Press, and is one of the lead artists for the mural, Alto al Fuego en la Misión located on 24th and Capp, SF.
Isabelle Khoo-Miller is a tree, a literal grouping of water molecules remebering how to live and love freely.
Rafael Luna -aka- el hijo de Quetzalcoatl. Born and raised in Puebla Mexico, from "la malinche mountain" with the Nahuatl mixteca community,Storyteller on social media. Mexica Aztec dancer.
6-7PM